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Nail Those Math Facts!

October 12, 2015 by OneMommy

 

A few days ago I shared with you our hammering nails in pumpkins activity.   As promised, I’ve got an educational twist to the activity to share with you!   We used our pumpkins to have fun working on math facts.  

 

Fun way to practice math facts using pumpkins

 

Materials Needed to Nail Those Math Facts:

  • Pumpkin
  • Permanent marker
  • Nails
  • Hammer (We used a plastic toy hammer.)

 

Both of my children have been working on memorizing addition and subtraction math facts.

I used a permanent marker to write numbers all over the pumpkin.   Then I gave them a math problem to solve, such as 5+3, and they searched for the answer and hammered a nail into the correct number.

If you put enough numbers all over the pumpkin and played long enough, you can have a pretty neat looking pumpkin to display after practicing all those math facts!

 

using pumpkins to practice math facts

 

Ways to modify the activity:

  • You could also use this activity to work on multiplication or division math facts.
  • For a younger child you could write the letters of the alphabet on the pumpkin and have them locate the letters.
  • Use the permanent marker to write sight words on the pumpkin for your child to identify.

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Be sure to check out our other fun learning activities with pumpkins!

  • Pumpkin Sink or Float
  • Make a Pumpkin volcano

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: making learning fun, math activity, pumpkin

Comments

  1. Mudpie Fridays says

    October 18, 2015 at 3:33 pm

    Great idea :), I am working on number recognition with Monkey at the moment so I could adapt this to work for him 🙂 thank you #busydoinglife x

    • OneMommy says

      October 19, 2015 at 8:30 pm

      Definitely! I hope you both have as much fun as we did with it!

  2. Corinne says

    October 20, 2015 at 3:16 pm

    This is such a simple, but fun idea! I love your ideas for adapting it for different ages. Thanks so much for linking up at Happy Home Life.

  3. Deborah from Mommy Crusader says

    October 22, 2015 at 1:44 am

    This is such a clever and fun way to practice math facts. I bet those pumpkins end up pretty spooky. I love how you combined such a fun activity with something that is so important for students’ success in later Math classes.

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